A big thank you to all of you for your great questions on yesterday’s live webinar with author Steve Taylor and myself!

I particularly appreciated Kimberley May Jones’ question about the global awakening of consciousness, this huge evolutionary shift we are currently experiencing. In his response Steve talked about how at every stage of evolution the next step, the next leap is latent in the one before. A similar principle applies, he said, in thetiny fertilised egg in the womb – it holds the latent potential of a grown, mature adult.

His words reminded me of Barbara Marx Hubbard’s take, which is exactly the same. She also says that at no point in time has nature evolved without crisis. One example she gives is of single-celled life that appeared in the sea 3.5 billion years ago. It hit a growth point and began overpopulating, polluting and stagnating (pretty much like us now!). This crisis point became the driver for evolution: oxygen appeared.I talk about this in my article ‘Trusting Crisis’ published in the next issue of Caduceus. As I said in the webinar, in response to Kimberley’s question, crisis is the driver of that evolution, of that awakening. This is true at the individual level and at the global.We ended the webinar on what felt like a really positive and uplifting note; that in time the awakened state will become the norm. This is what we’re evolving towards. As Richard Bucke wrote in 1901:‘...our descendents will sooner or later reach, as a race, the condition of cosmic consciousness...’Cosmic consciousness here we come!